• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      People’s habits have nothing to do with a journalist’s quailty of work. A fine article not read is still a fine article.

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        1 year ago

        A fine article is less likely to have a clickbait headline than a clickbait article is. So it’s a decent correlation.

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        1 year ago

        “Reporting can 100% be clean and fair even with bad headlines.”

        This is the part I disagree with. People are very often misled by bogus clickbait headlines.